( 1849 ) 



Stevia Eupatoria. Hemp- Agrimony-like 



Stevia. 



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Class and Order. 



Syngenesia Polygamia ^Equalis. 



Generic Character. 



Reeept. nudum. Pappus paleaceus. Cal. cylindraceus, 

 ex simplici foliolorum serie. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Stevia Eupatoria; herbacea, foliis lanceolatis planis in 



petiolum attenuatis trinerviis apice obsolete subserratis, 



corymbis fastigiatis, pappo paleaceo et aristato. Willd. 



Enum. 854. Idem in Mag. d. Gesells. Naturf. Fr. z. 



Berl. 1807. p. 138. 

 Stevia Eupatoria ; herbacea foliis lanceolatis trinerviis inte- 



gerrimis, corymbo fastigiato, pappo paleaceo et aristato. 



WUld. Sp. PL 1775. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 510. 

 Mustelia Eupatoria. Sprengel in Linnean Soc. Trans, v. 6, 



p. 152. t 13. 



The late Professor Willdenow, in his Enumeration of 

 the Plants of the Berlin Garden, has a species that he calls 

 purpurea, nearly allied to Eupatoria, but which, he says, 

 differs in having channelled leaves and purple flowers. The 

 corollas in our plant are tinged with purple on the outside 

 and are white within ; but then its leaves are flat ; they are 

 thiee-nerved on the under and dotted on both sides, quite 

 entire at the upper part of the plant, but the lower ones 

 are s6mewhat sawed at the apex. The leaves in our speci- 

 mens were rather oblong-ovate than lanceolate ; but, as we 

 have seen others with longer leaves, we can hardly consider 

 our plant as different from Eupatoria. 



The specimen, from which our drawing was taken, was 

 communicated by the late Mr, Donn, of the Cambridge 

 Garden, who said he found it to be a hardy herbaceous per- 

 ennial. Native of Mexico. Flowers in August and September. 



